MIT Technology Review - coal-fired power generationhttp://www.technologyreview.com/tagged/coal-fired-power-generation/
enWeathering Climate Changehttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/411980/weathering-climate-change/
<p>Ralph J. Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, discusses the challenges of climate-change research.</p><p>Ralph J. Cicerone, one of the nation’s leading experts on climate change, is an atmospheric chemist who has made major contributions to understanding ozone depletion and the behavior of greenhouse gases. Now president of the National Academy of Sciences, Cicerone is planning a new yearlong study, requested last year by Congress, to advise the nation’s policy makers on climate change. The study will offer guidance on how to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, what climate changes are inevitable, and what future research is required to understand these changes more clearly. Cicerone recently spoke with <em>Technology Review</em>’s chief correspondent, David Talbot.</p>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices411980 at http://www.technologyreview.comCutting Coal Use with Sunshinehttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/411978/cutting-coal-use-with-sunshine/
<p>How solar-thermal energy could shrink coal plants’ carbon footprint.</p><p>Feeding heat from the sun into coal-fired power stations could turn out to be the cheapest way to simultaneously expand the use of solar energy and trim coal plants’ oversize carbon footprints. </p>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices411978 at http://www.technologyreview.comChina Closes the Clean-Coal Gaphttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/411393/china-closes-the-clean-coal-gap/
<p>The United States and China are both focusing on technologies to clean up coal power.</p><p>China looks set to overtake the United States in the application of technologies to clean up coal-fired power generation, if several proposed projects come to fruition. GreenGen–a joint venture established by Chinese utilities–has broken ground on China’s first integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant and signed agreements to build two more. </p>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices411393 at http://www.technologyreview.com